You’re right - you’ve successfully built an infrastructure that keeps you outside the slop machine. Kagi, Whoogle, fediverse, HackerNews - that’s strategic refusal working as intended. The slop is concentrated on mainstream platforms where people haven’t opted out. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube - my friends still using those are drowning in AI-generated engagement bait, fake historical photos, GPT-written content. It’s not subtle anymore for people still plugged in. The kirkification angle is trickier though - it’s not just what you see, it’s how you’re represented in spaces you’re not in. Someone can generate deepfakes of you and you’d never know. Your digital body gets remixed without consent. Your “maybe I can’t recognize it anymore” point is real. The aesthetic tells are getting harder to spot. Five years ago it was obvious, now it takes active effort. Platform rules banning it would help but verification at scale is nearly impossible. The only reliable defense is what you’re doing - removing yourself from spaces where slop is profitable. But that’s also a technical barrier. I can set up Whoogle and fediverse accounts, but my friends on Instagram? That’s where their community actually is. Opting out means losing access for most people. This is why municipal-scale infrastructure matters - if a town runs its own services, suddenly opting out isn’t a technical hurdle, it’s just where the community is. You asking “where is the slop?” while others drown in it proves we’re already living in parallel internets. The bifurcation is real.